Hydrometric & Oceanographic

Over the past 24 years of growing our business within the water infrastructure industry, Dommar has been involved across all aspects of instrumentation; regarding their design, installation, controls and telemetry, including their maintenance and calibration.  From these many years of being involved with all attributes of instrumentation hardware, Dommar has broadened and developed our experience into hydrometric services, collecting measurements, management and presentation of water related data.  This area of hydrometric services includes work undertaken; on land, rivers, lakes, reservoirs and oceanographic.  Dommar’s proven project delivery capabilities across the water infrastructure industry are attributed to our culture to provide solutions and high quality services with value adding.

From Dommar’s all encompassing involvement and delivery of water infrastructure projects over many years, Dommar has developed an in-house specialist team with extensive hydrometric experience.  These hydrometric services are supported by Dommar’s in-house engineers and technicians with experience in instrumentation design, specifications, telemetry, controls & SCADAnet including related software programming installation & maintenance.  As an additional area of support to our Hydrometric and technical resources, we also provide support services from Dommar’s in-house management and supervision specialist across safety, environmental and quality.  

Dommar’s Hydrometric capabilities and services are summarised in the table below; 

• All types of Hydrographic consulting for land, rivers, lakes, reservoirs and oceanographic requirements.

• Water data management, mapping, retrieval, sampling and reporting.

• Design, construction, installation, maintenance and calibration of water monitoring stations and instruments.

• Data collection, secure storage, processing, interpretation and presentation of reports using Hydstra software.

• Establishment of cost effective management of monitoring and servicing programs to suit the needs of our clients.

• Facilitate instrument design, selection and installation including related telemetry, controls, data loggers and writing all related software / programs.

• Dommar have their own 2C Survey Certified Vessel with experienced Coxswain operators.

• Oceanographic works include marine / aquatic surveillances, benthic surveys, construction surveillances, auditing and reporting.

Our hydrometric services associated with our oceanographic works include marine aquatic surveillances, benthic surveys, construction surveillances, auditing and reporting.  The acquisition, processing and presentation of technical data relating to coastal construction projects having both surface and subsurface marine environments is critical to any project’s; planning, safe construction, local navigation and the sustainment of marine ecologies.  Dommar has extensive experience with marine surveying and surveillance involving the study, mapping and analysis of both subsea environmental conditions and ocean terrain, to assist with project development and to help our clients manage marine and environmental impacts of human and project activities both during project construction phase and post construction (operational) phase.